Detroit Shocks Baltimore in High-Scoring NFL Clash

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00:00Listen, we all expected a bit of a high-scoring game last night

00:03between Detroit and Baltimore, and overbetters absolutely crushed it.

00:09Might have been the rocking chair play of the day,

00:13as they did end up with 68 points after all there, Adam.

00:17I think it closed at 52.5, 53, one of the higher totals we have seen thus far

00:23in three weeks in the NFL season.

00:26But it was how they went about getting those points,

00:30and for Detroit, it was all about the running game.

00:34We expect Baltimore to score its points because they've already scored, what,

00:3940 points or plus in the first two games of the season.

00:43They only got 30 last night, but a big reason why is, well, time of possession as well.

00:48When you can run the ball as well as they did Detroit,

00:52218 yards between Gibbs and Montgomery last night and four scores,

00:57they had a 98 and a 96-yard touchdown drive in that game, chewing up a ton of clock.

01:05You just basically ran out of time if you are the Baltimore Ravens

01:09because you couldn't get off the field.

01:12Very impressive win for Detroit.

01:14Maybe some red flags now for the Ravens?

01:16I think a bunch of red flags for the Ravens,

01:21and they come on both sides of the football, quite frankly.

01:23We alluded to it earlier defensively, Joe.

01:25This is a team that, again, just can't get off the field when it needs to.

01:29You mentioned those pair of 95-plus-yard drives,

01:33first time that it happened in a single game in the NFL since the 2021 season,

01:38when, ironically, my Patriots, a team that had no offense to speak of at that time,

01:43because that was, remember, post-Tom Brady, even post-Cam Newton,

01:46that was the Mac Jones era to begin things.

01:49They did it, and we hadn't seen it since.

01:51This team, this Ravens team here is, I mean, it's alarming how bad they are

01:57when they need to be great.

01:59You see, again, a 15-point lead against Buffalo back in week one

02:04evaporate in the final five minutes of the game.

02:07And here in this game, at home, no less,

02:09against a very good Lions team that, you know, has been, I guess, a little up and down.

02:15Don't forget, you know, they entered this season two new coordinators,

02:18offensive and defensive, and there were so many question marks around that.

02:22Looked terrible, both sides of the ball, in week one to open up the season

02:26against Green Bay, and it's like, oh, man, this is the team that we're investing in.

02:31Maybe losing Ben Johnson, losing Aaron Glenn.

02:34This is going to be a real problem.

02:36They go out, obviously, in kind of that revenge game with Ben Johnson,

02:40and they blow doors, but part of you says, well, it's the Bears.

02:44You know, how much can we really take from that?

02:46They got a real opponent.

02:47Next time around, let's see what they do.

02:49And you see, I'm sure it wasn't a great night for the books,

02:52because you saw just about, you know, or I'm sure it was a good night, pardon me,

02:57because you saw so many people on the Ravens, not only to win,

03:00Moneyline Parleys, that type of thing.

03:02Hopefully people didn't go near them in Survivor, but people, without hesitation,

03:06taking them to cover the four and a half points as the line climbed throughout the week,

03:11even getting to five, five and a half.

03:13And, you know, there was Detroit just never out of this game, oftentimes leading this game.

03:20Baltimore goes up a touchdown coming out of the half, and you think, all right,

03:23maybe the Ravens are going to right the ship.

03:25And then, boom, we're tied again.

03:27Here comes the fourth quarter, and once again, it's Baltimore's inability to get a key defensive stop.

03:3417-9, the Ravens were outscored in that fourth quarter.

03:38Part of it, I guess you can look at and say, again, commend Dan Campbell for the wheelbarrow stones

03:45that he's walking around with there, with going forward on fourth and two,

03:49with a 20-yard pass, Jared Goff to Amon Ross St. Brown, converting that,

03:54and keeping that drive alive late, I mean, hell of a job.

03:57But the Ravens, to me, as much as a gigantic red flag as the defense is,

04:04offensively, offensively, Joe, Derrick Henry, this is now three fumbles,

04:09two very crucial ones in as many games, you know, two of those late in the fourth quarter

04:13that one of them absolutely alters the impact against Buffalo.

04:17This one very well may have been as well.

04:20When you're trailing by a touchdown, you fumble the ball, Lions come back down,

04:24they score to go up two touchdowns, you get an opportunity again.

04:27Obviously, you narrow the gap, but even still, you're done, you're out of it.

04:31He's not running well, only has roughly 75 rushing yards the last two weeks combined.

04:37And Lamar Jackson, with that offensive line, was under absurd amounts of pressure late in that game.

04:43They were, we remember earlier on in the contest, their first and goal from inside the five,

04:52get to second and goal from the two, four downs, failed to score that touchdown at that point in time,

04:59including Lamar fumbling the ball on fourth down and having to run back and chase it 20 yards

05:04before finally getting tackled and Detroit takes over there.

05:07So, just so many issues for this Ravens team.

05:10A lot of people thought they were going to run away with this conference.

05:14They'll win their division because the division stinks, but here comes another playoff loss early on.

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